December 16, 2024
Dola Sen’s speech on ‘We the People of India’ during the Special Discussion on the 75th anniversary of adoption of the Constitution of India
Thank you Vice-Chairman, Madam. Thanks to our hon. Leader and my Party, All India Trinamool Congress, for giving me this chance to speak on Constitution of India. I will try to deliver my speech in my mother-tongue Bangla. ”Madam Vice Chairperson, we have decided from All India Trinamool Congress that all our MPs will talk about the various points in the preamble of the Constitution. After Saket’s Justice or Nyay, my point is “We the people of India’’ for AITC, the All India Trinamool Congress. We the people of India, we are jana-gana. Who are they? Who are we, the people of India? We, the People of India, mean those labourers, migrant workers, who had to walk thousands of miles following the sudden lockdown announced by the Union Government in the wake of COVID pandemic. They walked, they died and they got washed away in the Ganges. They were burnt on the banks of Ganges so that no one knows about COVID. We, the People of India, mean those fellow citizens who died homeless standing in bank queues after the suddenly announced demonetization but not a single rupee of black money was recovered. We, the People of India, are our more than 850 farmer friends, brothers and sisters, who were legally and peacefully protesting against the antifarmer Farm Act at the Delhi border, and who lost their lives in brutal attacks by police backed by Union Government. The farmers still have not got the Minimum Support Price (MSP) even though the Prime minister had promised it. We, the People of India, are our 59 lakh MGNREG Job Card workers, who, toiled for their hard earned crores of rupees for two years, are still awaiting the release of the same from the Union Government whereas three years have already passed. We, the People of India, are our unfortunate mothers, brothers and sisters of Manipur who, for the last one and a half years, have been facing the burning issue homelessly. Even though the mothers and sisters survived in any way, the Prime Minister did not go to meet them even though they were desperate. We, the People of India, are the 10 crore ordinary people of our Bengal, who were deprived by the Union Government by taking the money of the State and not returning their shares. We, the People of India, are the 25 percent youth of our population who are jobless, unemployed. Two crore jobs were promised in a year, and 20 crore jobs in ten years but the same did not not happen despite PM’s promise. We, the People of India, are our lakhs of our labour employees, who have lost their jobs due to disinvestment, corporatization, and it comprised even those who had cleared up exams to join profitable PSUs and public enterprises, and the youth are still to get the benefit of Old Pension Scheme. We, the People of India, are those countrymen who have to bear the 10 % increase in the food prices to feed his family. We, the People of India, are the brothers and sisters from the indigenous waterforest land, who have to survive with their families despite having a very low income. Dalit friends, brothers and sisters from the minority community are still lagging behind the rest of us. They are deprived of all rights including education even after 75 years of Independence in this Viksit Bharat. We, the People of India, are our common people who own 50% of the wealth of our 1% population. Most of the rest of the people have to struggle a lot. In today’s Vikisit Bharat with acche din, we, the People of India, are our outstanding fighter Mamata Banerjee. She had to struggle a lot in her early days. A mass leader Mamata Banerjee and her grassroot workers, who always remain pro-people against the antipeople policies of this Union Government, and they keep fighting for – We, the People of India. They keep fighting inside Parliament and outside in the field. We, the People of India, believe, man is above all of us, and truth is not above him. So man dies fighting and, in the end, he does not have the last word in the final judgement.”
